Improvement in bale-tying machines



F. s. HEATH. Bale-Tying Machine.

Patented Feb. 5,1878.

W %l/ Z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIo FRANK S. HEATH, OF COREY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN BALE-TYING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 200,059, dated February 5, 1878; application filed December 3, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK S. HEATH, of Corry, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bale-Tying Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object I have in view is to produce a light and convenient hand-machine to be used in connection with baling-presses for the purpose of locking the ends of wire bale-ties in the peculiar manner described in my applica-,

tion for patent upon the method of binding bales by twisting together both parts of the lapped ends of the wire into a uniform continuous twist; and my invention therein consists, first, in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the slotted pinion, slotted journals, and the operating-gear, so that the lapped por-, tions of the wire will be held at the ends of the lap, and twisted from such ends in opposite directions to form thepontinuous twist; second,in the peculiarly-slotted guiding-plates for gathering the ends of the lapped wires to their proper positions in the revolving slotted pinions; and, further, in the combination, construction, and arrangement of the various parts composing my bale -tying machine, as fully hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to manu facture and use my machine, I proceed to describe the same, having reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the lapped ends of the bale-tie in position to be looked; Fig. 2, a separate view of one of the slotted pinions; Fig. 3, a separate view of one this shaft a beveled-gear wheel, 0. The wings b b of the frame A are properly bored out at right angles to the counter-shaft, to receive the journals 0 c of beveled pinions D D. These journals are inserted into the bearings in the wings from the inside, and the beveled pinions D D revolve against the inner faces of the wings meshing with the beveled gear O on the counter-shaft, by which they are oper ated. Slots (1 d are formed in the beveled pinions, and their journals extending down a short distance below the center; and the wings I) b are also slotted on their upper portions, to permit the placing of the lapped parts of the wire in the slots d d and the removal of them after being twisted. v

To the outer ends of the journals 0 c are attached slotted plates E E, the slots 0 e of these plates coinciding with the slots in the journals. than the slots 01 d, so as to prevent the lapped parts of thewire from turning in them, while the slots 01 d are of sufficient width to allow the parts of the wire to turn freely therein. The plates E E are shown as secured by screws to the journals 0 c, and this is essential where the plates are made larger than the journals; but I have designed, in practice, to make these plates of the same size as the journals, and to cast them with such journals, which would be, in effect, a mere extension of the journals 0 0, except that the slots would be reduced in size at the outer ends of the same as when the plates are used. The plates E E are set into the wings b b, and on the outer faces of these wings are secured the guiding plates F F. These guiding-plates have peculiarly-shaped eccentric slots ff. (Shown more particularly in Fig. 3.) Each of these slots commences at the point {1, where the wire enters, and curves downwardly below the revolving center of the Y slotted plate E or E on that end of the machine, and then upwardly for a short distance, gradually nearing the center until it reaches the point g, from which it takes the same direction as the slot in the adjacent plate when all the slots are in line.

When my tying-machine is made especially for attachment to the perpetual baling-press the bottom of the frame A is provided with a dovetail groove, h, to slide upon a stationary These slots 0 e are made narrower Fig; 1,) are attached to the front of the wings V I) b, and, instead of the crank-handle B, I use a brace,similar in construction to an ordinary carpentefls'brace, by which the'machine is operated. r In use with the perpetualbaling press the wires or bands of properlength are placed around the bale endwise, and the ends lapped 'togetheron the: side thereof. 7 The machine is moved on the bar to the requiredposition,and the lapped portions of the wirearej placed across the wings b' bandthrough'the slots,

the crank-handle being turned so as to'bring all the slots in line. The crank-handleis then l turned to theright, thus imparting a revolving motion to the slotted pinions and journals and the plates on the outer ends of the journals in r the direction shown by the arrows in Fig. 1.

By this motion it will be seen that,.since the ends of the lap are held from turning in the revolvingslotted plates E E, the slots 4% d in the pinions and their journals revolve around the lap'iu opposite directions, both parts of the lapped ends of the wire will be twisted from the ends of the lap in opposite directions, thus forming a continuousand unifor twist, as shown in Fig. 4. V V V In using my machine with other than the perpetual press, the operator stands in front of the bale and forces the spikes 13 i into the bale, so that theslots, when in line, shall run in the same direction as the tie when lapped together around the bale. The lap is then placed in the slots, and the machine is oper ated by the brace the same as by the handle, as before described.

In. operating the machine the ends of the wire havea tendency to twist'out of the slots in the revolving plates E E, and, to prevent this, the eccentric slotted plates F F are attached,

as shown. The slots of these plates gather and confine the wires to their proper position in the revolving slotted plates,

The advantages of this machine lie 'principally in'the lightness and compactness with which it can be constructed, its convenience in handling, and the ease with which thetwis'ted wire can be removed from it.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isr 1.. Inabale-tying machine, the combination,

with the-frame A, of the two slotted pinions D D, revolving in opposite directions, substantially forth.

2. In a bale-tying machine, the combination, with the frame A, of the revolving slotted pinas described, for the purposes set ions D D and the journals 0 0, having slots 7 adapted to hold the wire at their outer ends,

substantially as and for thepnrposesset forth. 7 a 3. In a bale-tying machine,the combination, V

with the frame A, of the beveled gear-wheel O, the-revolving slotted pinions D D, the revolving slotted journals 0 c, and the slotted plates E E, secured to the ends of such journals, substantially as described and shown.

4. In a bale-tying machine, the combination,

with the revolving slotted pinions for twisting lapped wire, of means to prevent the wirefrom twisting outof such slots, substantially as described and shown. 1'

' 5. The'combination, with the revolving slotted pinions, of the stationary guiding-plates F F ,havingth'e eccentric slots f f constructed 7 substantially as described and shown.

a V 6. The combinatiomwith the frameA, of the FRANK S. HEATH.

Witnesses:

R. N. DYER, L. XV. SEELY. 

